Archive for September 2010
Lessons from Milton, Episode II
September 30, 2010 | No Comments | View
In less than a week, Bluezoom will have the pleasure of gathering ’round the ol’ conference room plasma and having a modern-day fireside chat with Milton Glaser, whom we’ve discussed earlier. We’re quite excited; it sounds miraculously inspiring. How many graphic designers have their own exhibitions? Milton is definitely a guy worth watching, viewing, and [...]
Be Inspired: New Type York
September 23, 2010 | No Comments | View
This sounds kind of dumb to say, but language and communication is effing amazing when you take a quiet minute to think about it: sounds and symbols that allow an idea from one person’s mind to enter the mind of someone else. Dang. How many times as a kid did you furrow your brow and [...]
Tags: fonts
The Search for Inspirado
September 16, 2010 | No Comments | View
“Where do songs come from? Inspirado. I mean, I could 23-skidoo you a song, I could zip-a-dee-doo-da you a song… but that would be false. It would be wrong. I mean, you can’t “manufacture” inspirado. It rises from a stillness, a quietude… when your heart mingles with your soul, and oh man they do the [...]
Design Inspiration: Josef Muller-Brockmann
September 9, 2010 | No Comments | View
When it comes to graphic design, do you dig the Swiss type? If so, then Josef Müller-Brockmann, he’s your herr. (Or was [b. 1914, d. 1996]–God rest his divinely proportioned soul.) If you’re not sure, let us lay it out for you: almost any graphic design you see that’s clean, tidy, and innately geometric was [...]
Guts and Trust
September 2, 2010 | No Comments | View
“Guts and Trust” : three words on heavy rotation here at Bluezoom, first flying from the mouth of Tommy Beaver (resident designer, illustrator, leather enthusiast) ca. 2001. It’s not our tag line, but it’s certainly a mantra. If it were to be committed to ink on skin, it might be set in Blackmoor in an [...]
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